Elektronica is a close second since I don't even know what the hell that is.

*joins Darkfire in his headbanging*

The Bridgekeeper vs King Arthur:
"WHAT...is your name?"
"Arthur, King of the Brits."
"WHAT...is your quest?"
"To find the Holy Grail."
"WHAT...is the average speed of a swallow?"
"An African or a European one?"
"Well I don't knooAAAARGH!"

Bedevere feat. Arthur:
"How do know so much about swallows?"
"Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know."

I passionately hate modern rap/hip-hop like 50 cents etc. But that's more because the "culture" that goes with it. Having said that, one cannot claim that it's not music. There's music/a beat and there's rhythmic performed "poetry" on top of that. Both have musical qualities.
Of course I am not saying that I think 50 cents is a "musical" guy because he's not. Neither are some hiphop producers like Dr. Dre. They make shitty music, but it's still music.

And to all the people claiming that you need musical instruments to make music, and that a computer is not a musical instrument. Quit living in the 19th century... A computer in the hands of a group like Lamb is just a means to an end...a beautiful end.

Curois wrote:And to all the people claiming that you need musical instruments to make music, and that a computer is not a musical instrument. Quit living in the 19th century... A computer in the hands of a group like Lamb is just a means to an end...a beautiful end.

It's all music, you snobs. Not liking it doesn't stop it from being music.

Oh, and I like at least one example out of every genre listed above.

I confess I like less Rap than any other listed genre though... but Public Enemy is great stuff. I respect Rap when it has a meaningful message beyond glorification of the thug lifestyle, materialism, and misogyny.

Chuck D wrote:I'm not a hooliganI rock the party andClear all the madness, I'm not a racistPreach to teach to all'Cause some they never had thisNumber one, not born to runAbout the gun...I wasn't licensed to have oneThe minute they see me, fear meI'm the epitome - a public enemyUsed, abused without cluesI refused to blow a fuseThey even had it on the newsDon't believe the hype...

- Aloro

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote:The meaning of earthly existence lies, not as we have grown used to thinking, in prosperity, but in the development of the soul.

fyrmin wrote: and because i once went out with a girl who loved country and after i started hating her (but of course dragged out the relationship for as long as possible... im a giver you see) it was only natural to hate everything associated with her.

Isn't that a country song in itself

Needs to have the dog burning down and the house running away. I got that right, right?

Maybe when they broke up, she burned his house, stole his dog and left with his pick-up

Wait, this is modern Western...Which means that the dog stole his truck, ran over his wife, crashed into the house and set it on fire, and they all died in a deadly conflagration. He didn't find out about it until he came home from getting laid off from the, wait for it, truck factory I think I have a hit.

The old joke is, if you play a Country song backwards, his truck gets returned, his wife takes him back, and his dog comes home.

Gah.. we both forgot the gunrack

AND to insert line about belt buckle/saddle/trophies won along the way.

fyrmin wrote: and because i once went out with a girl who loved country and after i started hating her (but of course dragged out the relationship for as long as possible... im a giver you see) it was only natural to hate everything associated with her.

Isn't that a country song in itself

Needs to have the dog burning down and the house running away. I got that right, right?

Maybe when they broke up, she burned his house, stole his dog and left with his pick-up

Wait, this is modern Western...Which means that the dog stole his truck, ran over his wife, crashed into the house and set it on fire, and they all died in a deadly conflagration. He didn't find out about it until he came home from getting laid off from the, wait for it, truck factory I think I have a hit.

The old joke is, if you play a Country song backwards, his truck gets returned, his wife takes him back, and his dog comes home.

Gah.. we both forgot the gunrack

AND to insert line about belt buckle/saddle/trophies won along the way.

Bolo wrote: Anybody who says country music has no soul must have never listened to Hank Williams,Willy Nelson,Johny Cash,Roy Orbison,etc.. Anybody who says hip hop is not music needs to listen to Outkast,Mary J. Blige,The Fugees, Lauryn Hill,etc..

Bolo wrote: Anybody who says country music has no soul must have never listened to Hank Williams,Willy Nelson,Johny Cash,Roy Orbison,etc.. Anybody who says hip hop is not music needs to listen to Outkast,Mary J. Blige,The Fugees, Lauryn Hill,etc..

Outkast and the Man in Black I will give you. The rest, nope.

*ties Loki to a chair and puts some Fugees and Lauryn Hill on*

I don't like Hip Hop but still own both a The Fugees record and a Lauryn Hill solo record.

Bolo wrote: Anybody who says country music has no soul must have never listened to Hank Williams,Willy Nelson,Johny Cash,Roy Orbison,etc.. Anybody who says hip hop is not music needs to listen to Outkast,Mary J. Blige,The Fugees, Lauryn Hill,etc..

Outkast and the Man in Black I will give you. The rest, nope.

*ties Loki to a chair and puts some Fugees and Lauryn Hill on*

I don't like Hip Hop but still own both a The Fugees record and a Lauryn Hill solo record.

Bolo wrote: Anybody who says country music has no soul must have never listened to Hank Williams,Willy Nelson,Johny Cash,Roy Orbison,etc.. Anybody who says hip hop is not music needs to listen to Outkast,Mary J. Blige,The Fugees, Lauryn Hill,etc..

Outkast and the Man in Black I will give you. The rest, nope.

*ties Loki to a chair and puts some Fugees and Lauryn Hill on*

I don't like Hip Hop but still own both a The Fugees record and a Lauryn Hill solo record.

Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who is widely recognized as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music and who excelled at all the musical genres of his era, was born this day in 1756.

This is serendipity. I get a "On this day" history email from Encyclopaedia Britannica. This was the biography of the day. The part that made me laugh was when I mis-read the meaning of Western music.

For the record, I am mostly into honest guitar music. I hate trance, hardcore and slightly dislike house. On the other hand, I'm into dark ambient, ambient, trip hop, and especially electro. I don't know if I like or dislike jungle. Frankly, electronic music is so diverse these days that using labels like this even is hard.

You could probably branch well to electronical stuff by listening to Norwegian stuff like Arcturus, Ulver and Kovenant then.... For really freaky stuff I'd go for Arcturus' La Masquerade Infernale (1997). Unless you're into that wimpy american death metal.

See, I remember things from my youth!

EDIT: Also, for mix of electronical stuff and raw metal, I'd go for the band Samael and their record Passage (1996).

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Tangleroot wrote:You could probably branch well to electronical stuff by listening to Norwegian stuff like Arcturus, Ulver and Kovenant then.... For really freaky stuff I'd go for Arcturus' La Masquerade Infernale (1997). Unless you're into that wimpy american death metal.

See, I remember things from my youth!

EDIT: Also, for mix of electronical stuff and raw metal, I'd go for the band Samael and their record Passage (1996).

bah! I do wanna hear some stuff that you think isn't wimpy then because what i am listening too is far from wimpy, hehe.

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Heh, Darkfire. Just a personal preference of mine. When I was into death metal, I never liked the American style, but preferred the European/Swedish/Norwegian stuff. They have some distinct differences. Hard to remember actual record names or band names actually.. I think 'Edge of Sanity', 'Unanimated', 'Rotting Christ' and 'Bolt Thrower' were some bands I listened to at least, all have probably quit ages ago.